g6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Dissosteira Scudder. 



Body slender, compressed, with the head rather prominent. 

 Disk of vertex somewhat ovate, the front truncate. Lateral 

 carinae low ; the median carina faint. Foveolae small, triangular. 

 Frontal costa sulcate, a little narrowed above and below the 

 ocellus. Disk of pronotum with the front margin nearly trun- 

 cate, the posterior angle obtuse. Median carina high, cut in 

 front of the middle by a deep narrow notch, the posterior portion 

 strongly arched. Lateral carinae rounded, extending only to 

 the principal sulcus. Lateral lobes of pronotum deeper than long. 

 Tegmina broad, extending about a third of their length beyond 

 the end of the abdomen. The intercalary vein prominent and 

 about midway between the median and ulnar veins. Inner wings 

 large, black, with a narrow yellowish border along the outer 

 edge as far as the apex, which is fuscous. Hind femora rather 

 stout, but small for the size of the species, shorter than the 

 abdomen in both sexes. 



D. Carolina Linnaeus. Carolina Locust. Plate IX, i. 



Color varying from light grayish yellow to dark fuscous. The 

 tegmina usually thickly sprinkled with small dark dots, though 

 specimens occur with the tegmina almost unspotted. Inner wings 

 nearly black with the outer border pale greenish yellow, the apex 

 smoky with several darker spots. Hind femora with the inner 

 face whitish and crossed with three blackish bands, the first 

 nearly covering the basal half. Hind tibiae dirty yellow, usually 

 with a whitish annulus near the base. 



Measurements. 

 Body Antennae Tejfmina Hind Femora 



Female 33-42 11.5-13 36-43 15.5-20.5 



Male 24-28 9-5-n 28-33.5 12.6-14.7 



The Carolina locust is familiar to every one. It occurs along 

 the roadside, in cultivated fields, and especially in places where 

 there is more or less bare earth. It is a strong flier, and when 

 alighting generally chooses a bare spot of ground with which the 

 colors often harmonize so that it is very hard to detect. This 

 locust is found throughout Connecticut ; in fact, it is distributed all 



